Still got some wiring to do. Im gonna hook up a tr-7 trigger module so i dont have to go through the BS to change my settings or watch movies. I am also hooking up my reverse camera next week. its all hooked up right now, but i just have to hook up that module and the camera. Heres some pics!:D

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sharp looking dash. Any troubles with the install?

sharp looking dash. Any troubles with the install?


thanks man! not really...just the wiring is kinda a pain because of the safety features on the unit. I also had to cut the little plastic support piece in the back of the dash just to make the unit fit...it was just a little rectangle plastic piece with a hole in it for the factory unit. other that that, no problems, fits nice, SOUNDS awesome and i love it so far. Ill be sure to get some more pics up when i finish everything.

Wiring pain? All you have to do is have one switch, that has one wire to the head unit, the other wire to ground, then the foot brake wire from the Alpine tied to the white wire in the brake switch.

Press foot brake/hold
switch on/off/on
release foot brake

It'll cost you the price of a switch.

do your steering weel controls still work.

do your steering weel controls still work.

Peripheral part PESWIX will make them work again.

Wiring pain? All you have to do is have one switch, that has one wire to the head unit, the other wire to ground, then the foot brake wire from the Alpine tied to the white wire in the brake switch.

Press foot brake/hold
switch on/off/on
release foot brake

It'll cost you the price of a switch.

I have the IVA D310 and the installer was cool enough to hook my deck up like that. Works good.

whare do you mount that control box.

yeah, the wiring because i had an old alpine hooked up before, and i had to hacck all that wiring away and reinstall the new one. Also the module with the switch and reverse camera.

use a ptr7 to correct that view while driving!!!

use a ptr7 to correct that view while driving!!!


haha, its on order, should be here monday. cant wait to finally get everything hooked up right

I am useing the pac-7 on mine works great. What camera are you using with yours? I bought one and I cant seem to get it to work with the alpine brain. And where are you mounting it?

I used an Eiger Vision camera. It's about an inch in diameter and mounted it between the rear bumper and tailgate.

All I had to do was run 12V switched, ground, and an RCA for signal to get mine to work. The IVA has a dedicated input on the rear for the camera signal, and in the separate harness there's a wire that goes to the positive trigger reverse lights on the truck.

That wire is at the BCM, right hand side, and it's green.

PAC TR7 ... not as cheap as a toggle switch, but seamless and automatically done ;)

FWIW, finishing up MY IVA-W300 this weekend. Have the head unit, 10" sub, 5 ch amp (4 doors and sub), 1 ch amp (center channel), and SURROUND SOUND processor (which also has time correction, a 31-band EQ, and some other goodies built into it) :D . Yes, Dolby 5.1 (and DTS 5.1) in the truck!

Only downside is it looks like I munched a wire in the Ai-Net cable from the head unit to the surround sound controller, so the unit only works on "optical out" sound stuff right now (i.e. CD/DVD, no radio or Ipod). New cable should fix it right up, already ordered one.

I had been trying to not cut that dash support...well, there's enough wires back there now that looks like I'll have to. The unit is temp-mounted about 1" further out than I'd like it to be. I'll probably fix it when I go in to replace the Ai-Net cable.

looks great! im planning on the same unit soon.

Impala SS- what all did you have to do to get the surround setup? id like to do this if it isnt to much trouble once i get my unit in.

I am using the Alpine PXA-H701 surround sound processor (http://www.alpine-usa.com/US-en/products/product.php?model=PXA-H701). It is meant to interface to the W200 amongst other head units. It'll do surround sound, time correction (introduces slight delays into the speakers depending how far they are from your ears....this makes a surprising difference!), High and Low Pass Filters (able to be set on an individual speaker basis), and has a 31 band parametric EQ built in. Importantly, it also has some flash memory built in so once you get your settings right you can "preset" them and they DON'T get lost once the power is pulled from the unit :) .

I mounted the surround sound processor right next to the amps, so that you basically run 2 cables (optical cable, Ai-net) to the processor from the head unit and then run some short (i.e. cheap) RCA cables from the processor to the amps.

Obviously, you have to run amps with this and can't use the internal amp on the W200 for any of your speakers.

thanks SS, ill have to consider this when doing my setup, so to do this i must run an amp to my speakers to make this work correct? are you running the stock bose speakers or have you gone to something different.

My truck never had Bose in it ;)

Speakers are Infinity front and rear, an Alpine center channel (for now, have an Infinity I will do later in a small box I build for in front of the seat...I have an SLE1 truck with split bench front) and JL Audio sub in a sealed box under the rear seat (ext cab).

The surround processor outputs the channels via RCA, so yes you will need external amp(s) to make it work. You will likely have to rip out all of the Bose.

thanks for the heads up on that, where did you mount your center channel at?

The center channel speaker is currently just temporarily loosely mounted on the floor hump below the dash. Permanently I will put a different (better) speaker in a box I will build that sits in that same spot.

hmm...not sure where i would mount a center one since i have the center concole